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DTELS Reunion 2008
Posted 07/09/2008

TUESDAY 2nd DECEMBER 2008
Bob Siu is kindly organising another annual DTELS reunion lunch. As with previous years, it will be held in London and is open to ex-DTELS staff and their spouses or partners.

Lynn and I look forward to seeing you at this years event, so for more details and to book your place using the on-line form, click here.

Webmaster Ramblings
Hello and welcome to the site

Change!
Since my last update in March, Lynn and I managed to escape these shores for our longest trip yet, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
HK was really a stopping off point with three nights in a lively environment which we both enjoyed. Surprisingly, having taken a shopping list with me, I left with little in the way of electronic items as the prices were not too dissimilar to those back home.

NZ was a delight to visit, particularly the South Island, where life was more laid back, stunning scenery, genuinely friendly people, lower traffic/noise pollution and a quality of life reminiscent of England three decades back. I have posted photos on my own web site showing some of the scenery out there.

Returning home has been something of a cultural change, which has taken a period of time to adjust. If you have yet to visit the country I would have no hesitation is recommending it’s inclusion in your list of future travels.

May Update
My thanks this month go to John Maloney whose Personal Recollections article entitled ‘Divers and Diverse Talk’ forms the basis of this months update and again highlights the wide range of projects undertaken by the Directorate during it’s heyday.

As there are no other articles in the pipeline and temporarily I am back at work, there are no other items to add this month.

Summer Break
As with previous years, there will be no more regular updates during the summer months, but all being well they will recommence early-mid November 2008. However, I will post news items as they are known so please revisit the site periodically.

During the summer months, I would really appreciate receiving many more articles for publication. If by November there is little to publish I may well have to look at calling it a day as documents and photos are now more difficult to source and increasingly I am becoming more reliant on personal recollection articles. Please send your articles to the following e-mail address:

and finally...
Wishing you have a happy and memorable time during the coming summer months and please keep spreading the word about the existence of DTELS.Org so that more of our former colleagues can enjoy the memories held on this site.

Until my next update in November.

StevenCole_07

Regards

Steven....
19th May 2008

19th May 2008

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
An article entitled Divers and Diverse Talk with photos from John Maloney looking back to a 1975-77 project to provide an underwater communications system.

May I extend a big welcome to those of you who may be visiting this web site for the first time. If you not already aware, this site is dedicated to recording some of the history of the Directorate of Telecommunications.

As a public sector department within the Home Office for England and Wales, the Directorate was responsible for providing wireless communication support to Emergency Service users in the two countries. Its origins go back to World War II (circa 1939) and grew over the years to become a major service provider to a wider range of Public Safety central and local government services. In 1991 it changed its name to DTELS and four years later became a private sector company following a trade sale to National Transcommunications Limited (ntl).

For more information about this web site, please click here.

Mid-November 2008
There will be no more regular updates until mid-November. However, please send me you news items and they will be posted on the home page or the forum accordingly.

Past site updates can be viewed in the News Section

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